Brighouse Art Circle members will take part in a friendly critique of work at Thursday’s meeting at 7.30pm at Waring Green Community Centre. Members should take two pictures. New members can go along and join the society, which meets every Thursday at the Brighouse centre.

Research your family history at Brighouse Library on Thursday. Facilities include searchable information on four computers, Calderdale Church of England Churches information, Ancestry.com searches and a wide range of books, journals, cuttings etc. Volunteers can help from 10am until 1pm at the Halifax Road library.

Elland

Aerobics classes take place at Wainwright Hall, Elland, every Monday from 10am to 11.30am and Thursday from 5.30pm until 7pm. A zumba class takes place from 7pm on Thursday. All welcome to join.

Members of Elland parish churches will host a lent lunch on Sunday, March 3, at the Canon Winter Centre from midday. The price is £6 and a donation will be made to the Forget Me Not Hospice in Huddersfield.

A sociable chit chat group is held at the Canon Winter Centre, Elland, on Wednesday, March 13 at 1.30pm. Its for pensioners want to get out and about and socialise with others.

Southowram

Southowram Horticultural and Allotments Society meets tomorrow at 8pm at the New Street Centre when John Preston from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) will speak on garden bird watch. Admission is free and the meeting is open to non-members.

Friends of Boothtown and Southowram Methodist Church hold their next charity coffee morning on Wednesday next week, March 5 from 10am to 12pm at Southowram Community Centre. There is no set charge but donations will be given to Friends of Highbury Development Fund.